Zobrazení posmrtných soudů v tibetském překladu Sútry o deseti králích: popis a komparativní analýza
Depiction of Post-mortem Judgments in the Tibetan Version of the Sutra of the Ten Kings

Summary/Abstract: Buddhist thanatology is based on varied source texts of which the best known and most popular ones are those telling about the post-mortem Jama’s judgment and depicting various infernal torments. Tibetan thanatological texts also include drawn, painted or xylographic illustrations, which visually represent such torments in a naturalistic and colorful manner. This contribution deals with the visual representation of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist thanatology, using primarily comparative approach. Similarly it deals with one depiction of post-mortem judgments, present in the Asian collections of the National Gallery in Prague. These illustrations accompany the Tibetan translation of the Chinese text known as the Sutra of the Ten Kings. Chinese texts concerning the ten kings are usually illustrated with depictions of ten courts and this is also the case with the illuminated Tibetan manuscript from Prague. Some of the accompanying pictures resemble the Chinese original; however, some of them bear remarkably innovative features.

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